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It has occurred to me, we are devolving, not evolving. I guess it's the tendency of people who teach the theory of evolution to exclaim about how much more intelligent we are than our ancesotors but I have failed time and again to find proof of it.
It is mathematically inevitable that deleterious mutations will pile up faster than beneficial mutations (if one believes in such). That's another topic, but the results are all around.

The title Descent of Man was more accurate than intended. If Darwin only knew, I'm sure he'd have changed it to Ascent of Man.

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Concerning abortion directly, it kind of makes you wonder how many brilliant minds we have thrown into the trash can, before they could even speak. And we convince ourselves somehow it's right. Without the theory of evolution, social darwinism, being drilled into the heads of generations of kids it never would have been possible that is a fact.
People think so backwards! They're programmed to regard their fellow man as an enemy or a liability no matter what. Employers consider workers to be a liability. Parents view children this way (thankfully it's often in jest). Big Brother tries everything to actually make children become a liability.

I don't know how far back this stuff goes, but it's very obviously wrong. I've told people too, if they don't consider me an asset, I'll look for another job.

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Several years ago I read an article in National Geographic that compared the behaviors of what is believed to be one of the most violent primitive people still left on earth (somewhere down in SA, cannibals even if i remember correctly) to our own culture. And essentially, in comparison, our culture is actually more violent was the conclusion.
No big surprise. "Civilization" generally translates quite well as "arrogance". Just look at the Romans.

Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm

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